mainstream religions were created as an extension of the state
when it became clear that not all men would bow to man's laws, the powers that be created religion to make all fear the invisible power in the sky that no man could challenge, thus making people fear something they could not confront or control

the commandments and the bible as a whole are designed to enforce compliance and subservience to a faceless higher authority just as law and politics work

jesus was just as much a puppet voice as a king or president...either way speaking on behalf of the silent puppetmasters above them who make the rules

I'm doing ancient history at college, it's actually quite scary to what extent the ancient empires controlled the state religions. Although both Persians and Romans were quite tolerant of their subject's religions they encouraged emperor worship and certain moral values through it. Religion was and is a simple form of propaganda, deal with it.

well thats just it, religion was designed to keep slaves compliant with their slavery, with an ideal of "life i **** but if you obey, you'll be rewarded in the afterlife" a fictional paradise for the dead to make up for hell on earth

just when the slaves became free and got better lives, they were so programmed into the religions, they took them with them and kept practising them with less need to

in the case of the jews, when they got freedom from egypt, they took the religion, and rewrote it into christianity to make themselves the masters and all faithful the slaves
pretty much making them as bad as their former masters

Say you buy a house. You then are kidnapped and forced to work in north africa for several years. One day you escape from captivity and spend a long trek heading home. You arrive on your doorstep and find the locks have been changed, and that muslims are in your house. You try to kick them out, but they only reluctantly agree to share it with you.

say you and your family own a big house, then someone from the next town over comes over, you open the door for him and welcome him in, he punches you in the face then while you reel back in surprise, he kills your family in front of you, you run and lock yourself in the attic, as you wait, the man sets up his family inside your home, after a time of starvation from lack of food and diseases from lack of hygiene, you finally come out of the attic, only for the man to punch you a few more times, as you beg for leniency, he says you can live in the closet as your specially reserved space

yep, the judeo christians sure were different to native americans than the egyptians were to jews

not all jews were slaves in egypt, they just like to falsify things to bring world pity on them, like the holocaust deaths were faked